Out of interest (this is a question for Thom I guess), why is the N800 orbiter so responsive (in terms of volume control, skipping forward/back, any repetitive button presses) in comparison to the touch orbiters? Also the N800 ALWAYS displays the correct screen, in that it never needs to be refreshed - is there some fundamental reason for this?

I assure you this isn't a dig at your work darrenmason, I am just curious.

Cheers,Matt.

N800 Orbiter is a port of SDL onscreen Orbiter. And it doesn't have any relations with Touch Orbiter. That's why you can see some different between them.

Andrew, can you explain briefly how UPnP controlling work, please? I. e. let's assume we have core/hybrid, Boxee Box and Web 2.0 Orbiter. As I understand the Boxee Box will be added to the system as UPnP device. What next? How we can control it via Orbiter? Is there some special screen for that?

VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP portsyou can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root andcannot be run by non-trusted users first).Does anybody knows how to solve that?

Does somebody use VDR with IPTV plugin? I downloaded and built IPTV plugin version 0.4.2. But after copy binary to the VDR lib directory and restarting VDR it started restart continuously. Any idea why?Here is a log:

I like [ur=http://www.theenergydetective.com/ted-5000/featuresl]TED 5000[/url]. It can work as standalone system and display all info on its LCD monitor module. Also it can be integrated with home automation system or Google PowerMeter. Unfortunately it uses ZigBee and not Z-Wave.

Possibility to change audio track in AVI/MKV video and switch on/off subtitles is one of the most important features missed in LinuxMCE. Currently you can use following command on your core to change the audio track: